A group of Ohio State University students who joked around about their off-campus housing being haunted recently learned that they were not that far off: It seems a strange man had been occupying a "secret bedroom" inside the students' house for months.

OSU's student paper The Lanternreports that a man named Jeremy, allegedly an OSU student himself, was let into the house by his cousin who lived there last year, and never left.

Students recalled hearing "weird noises like dings and alarms" emanating from behind a locked door in the basement that they believed was utility closet, but chalked it up to supernatural phenomena.